Life Cycle - Track Your Time
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Time and activities tracker

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Description

Life Cycle automatically keeps track of your time and presents your life sorted into slices. It shows you your daily activities, places you go, and who you spend time with. Life Cycle weekly journal provides personalized insights and clarity to your week passed. Start each week with a look back. Remember where you’ve been and vision where you’re going.

Whether you’re just curious of how your time is spent or looking to make a change, Life Cycle is your daily companion, providing you with all the information and insights you need. What’s more - it uses only 1% of your phone’s battery while it seamlessly does the work.

FREE FEATURES

• Automatic - Life Cycle works in the background, recording and sorting what you do as you go about your daily business.• Less than 1% battery - Life Cycle uses less than 1% of your battery per day as it runs in the background.• Weekly journal - Weekly insight to activities, accompanied by photos tied to moments passed.• From a day to a year - view your life day by day, week by week, month by month or even year by year.• Apple Health - Fully integrated. Imports all activities, mindfulness and sleep data.• Friends - Connect with your friends on Facebook and see who you’re spending time with, what you’re doing and where.• Sleep Cycle connection - For accurate sleep data, connect with Sleep Cycle alarm clock through Apple Health. (Life Cycle only reads data from Health, it does not share any data. It reads Sleep Analysis and Steps data.)

PREMIUM FEATURES

• Connect to your Sleep Cycle account - If you have an online backup account with Sleep Cycle, Life Cycle will let you know how your daily habits affect your sleep quality score.• Backup - Keep your data safe with our backup system. Never worry about losing your Life Cycle logs again.• Graphs - Beyond the donuts, Life Cycle shows you what you do with your time in detailed graphs for deeper analysis. The visuals gives you insight to if you're spending your time on what’s most important to you.• Compare trends - see if you’re dropping in sleep hours, if you’re working too much or if you’ve taken longer walks this week. Compare trends over the weeks, months or years.

BATTERY CONSUMPTIONContinued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Life Cycle does not use the GPS in the background, but instead relies on cell tower and Wi-Fi locations. As a result, it consumes less than 1% of your battery per day, when the app runs in the background.

REQUIREMENTS

• Life Cycle needs to run in the background to be able to record your data. It only uses 1% of your battery per day when doing so.• You need to carry your phone with you, for Life Cycle to accurately record and interpret your activities.• Wi-Fi should be enabled on your phone for tracking to work.

The optional Premium subscription costs $9.99 per year.

Should you choose to subscribe to Life Cycle Premium, the purchase will be charged to your iTunes account. You can manage or cancel your auto-renewable subscription by entering the user settings in iTunes after the purchase. The subscription will be auto-renewed 24 hours before the subscription period ends, with the same kind of subscription you already bought, to the same price. It's not possible to abort the subscription during the time it's active.

What's New

Version History

3.0.5

Fixed a wifi related problem causing online backup to be skipped.Improved behaviour for imported Health activities in certain situations.Fixed broken behaviour when learning the default activity at a location.

3.0.4

Oct 24, 2018

Fixed problem with repeated wifi warnings.

3.0.3

Oct 19, 2018

Fixed an issue with the wifi detection.

3.0.2

Oct 11, 2018

- Fixed several locale issues in the calendar- Fixed a problem with learning the correct location defaults in some situations- Some workout types should not be automatically connected to a location- Fixed a problem with importing too many steps in some situations- And we also fixed a few crashes and minor issues

3.0.1

Sep 10, 2018

-Improved the handling of unnamed locations under Trends-Fixed several crash related bugs

3.0

Aug 27, 2018

With this release, we’ve implemented the final stage of our journaling as we introduce the Yearly Journal. We’ve also completely reworked the Trends view, and added deeper location data as well. And for extra sugar, we also added disabling of commutes and Health data linked to location now.

2.4

Jun 12, 2018

Check out where your time flies over the months, as we’ve added more features to the Monthly Journal. There’s the usual bunch of fixes and tricks in this release as well, stuff in the background that constantly work to improve the Life Cycle experience.

2.3.1

May 22, 2018

We heard you. We brought steps back into the donuts. We’re sorry. And you’re welcome.

We’ve also updated our privacy policies to accomodate for the arrival of GDPR. We think this is a good thing.

2.3

Apr 29, 2018

In this release, we introduce the Monthly Journal, our follow-up to the Weekly Journal. Check out your monthly views like you did with your weeks before. We've also thrown in our usual tricks and fixes, to make the app an even smoother experience. Enjoy!

2.2.1

Mar 21, 2018

A few small tweaks and adjustments, related mainly to subscriptions and payment.

2.2

Mar 13, 2018

The bigger picture is in the details - Zoom out to a calendar view that features multiple daily donuts. Filter and compare specific activities to see change over time.

Transport is a journey - Fully unlocked, you can now edit your own transportation and flight slices.

More is more - Your yearly and monthly donuts now contain an option to dig deeper, if you’ve got more slices than the donut can handle.

2.1.1

Feb 20, 2018

Your weekly journal has pictures to tell and behind every picture lies a story. The all-new Life Cycle photos feature connects to your iCloud library and automatically adds photos of captured moments and activities to your weekly journal. What’s more, the new Life Cycle version lets you merge categories, seamlessly switch between school and work activity, and is now fully integrated with Apple Health - including activities, mindfulness, and sleep.

2.1

Feb 15, 2018

Your weekly journal has pictures to tell and behind every picture lies a story. The all-new Life Cycle photos feature connects to your iCloud library and automatically adds photos of captured moments and activities to your weekly journal. What’s more, the new Life Cycle version lets you merge categories, seamlessly switch between school and work activity, and is now fully integrated with Apple Health - including activities, mindfulness, and sleep.

2.0.2

Dec 1, 2017

- All journal weeks are now open by default- Added notes section in journal- And a range of bug fixes and stability improvements

2.0.1

Nov 8, 2017

- Journal improvements and bug fixes- Fixed start up hanging when consolidating locations- Fixed journal crashing in some locales- And a few other minor fixes and adjustments

2.0.0

Oct 30, 2017

Life Cycle switches to version 2.0! And with that, we introduce a weekly journal feature, an upgraded experience for editing your time and a trashcan for restoring deleted events.

At the beginning of a new week, you'll now get a journal overview, with insights and analysis of where you spent your time and habits that are trending one way or another. No journal is like any other, and yours will vary from week to week, as well.

We've also updated the interface to accommodate for a smoother and more direct approach when editing your slices of time.

And then there's the trash can, where your deleted events now go. From there, you can almost bend time by simply restoring what was once lost, and bring it back into your donut.

And of course, the usual bug fixes, tweaks, fixes and general upgrades here and there.

1.8

Aug 30, 2017

- Added Today widget with latest activities- Added sharing functionality for donut- Support for importing workouts and mindfulness minutes from Apple Health- Added What's New dialog- Adjusted steps font size for 38mm Apple Watch- Activities imported from Health are no longer locked- Added new help dialog for syncing with Health- Lowered minimum activity time- Improved behavior when app has not been open for a long time- Fixed wifi warning issue- Fixed No Location slice bug when adding more activities around the same time- And a range of other small fixes and adjustments

1.6.2

Apr 24, 2017

- Bug fixes and stability improvements

1.6.1

Apr 17, 2017

- Long term donuts now display moving average- Friends can now be deleted from a visit- Delete and ignore functions grouped into Trashcan icon- Improved donut center text for multiple locations- Improved online backup reliability- Optimized location handling when updating daily stats- Fixed bug with preliminary visit position adjustment- Fixed several insight issues- Fixed issue with some activities not displayed in trends- And many small fixes and adjustments

1.5.1

Feb 5, 2017

- More insights added- Sleep and Transport can now be added manually- Improved account verification handling- Fixed server connection issue for some regions- Fixed time formatting in charts- Fixed issue when not using Gregorian calendar- Fixed bug in sleep detection- And a few other fixes and improvements

1.5.0

1.4.4

Fixed a wifi related problem causing online backup to be skipped.Improved behaviour for imported Health activities in certain situations.Fixed broken behaviour when learning the default activity at a location.

Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5

22.8K Ratings

22.8K Ratings

pepe's child
12/30/2017

Needs a few changes

I’ve been trying out the free trail for a few weeks, and I love the idea behind this app so far. However, I will not be paying for premium and don’t see myself sticking even to the free version because of a few small bugs that irritate me. First, there are some bugs with this app tracking location. It can sometimes take a couple days for it to pop up that I was in an area or it won’t show up at all, then I have to enter it manually (which is both annoying and inaccurate). Second, why can’t I edit the activities already in the app? I don’t need a lunch and dinner option, just a “food” option. I could create my own, but it still irritates me to see the other options cluttering up my activities. Third, an activity at a uncategorized location will have a general area on a map tagged to it. But once I put in a custom name for the location, sometimes the location is untagged? Fourth, I’d like to be able to start an activity in the app somehow and stop it manually. Rather than having to remember my start and stop times and enter it after I finish if I want to manually create an activity. Finally, it would be nice to have more color options and be able to view my day in chronological order as well as by category. Overall the concept behind this app is great but I’m going to delete it because the execution makes the app more difficult to use than it’s insights are worth.

pepe's child
12/30/2017

Needs a few changes

I’ve been trying out the free trail for a few weeks, and I love the idea behind this app so far. However, I will not be paying for premium and don’t see myself sticking even to the free version because of a few small bugs that irritate me. First, there are some bugs with this app tracking location. It can sometimes take a couple days for it to pop up that I was in an area or it won’t show up at all, then I have to enter it manually (which is both annoying and inaccurate). Second, why can’t I edit the activities already in the app? I don’t need a lunch and dinner option, just a “food” option. I could create my own, but it still irritates me to see the other options cluttering up my activities. Third, an activity at a uncategorized location will have a general area on a map tagged to it. But once I put in a custom name for the location, sometimes the location is untagged? Fourth, I’d like to be able to start an activity in the app somehow and stop it manually. Rather than having to remember my start and stop times and enter it after I finish if I want to manually create an activity. Finally, it would be nice to have more color options and be able to view my day in chronological order as well as by category. Overall the concept behind this app is great but I’m going to delete it because the execution makes the app more difficult to use than it’s insights are worth.

Account4this
09/13/2017

Incredible app, but flawed pricing

I use this app on a daily basis to help me track my time spent on activities in a week. There are 168 hours in a week, and by using this app, I can see how that time is allocated. In doing so, it helps me keep a balanced life, and I'm currently subscribed for the premium features. I love the structure and aesthetics of the app, and it's very user-friendly.

However, it is absolutely ridiculous to require a $30 annual subscription from Sleep Cycle in order to access some of the sleep trend data charts. It's clearly unnecessary as the two options unavailable are "activities affecting your sleep quality" and "location effecting your sleep quality." Since Life Cycle continuously tracks your location & the sleep recorded by Sleep Cycle is synced, then there is absolutely no reason for the Sleep Cycle online backup subscription to be required. And how can Sleep Cycle selectively transfer data to Life Cycle by requiring online backup for some data, but not all data in the Life Cycle trends? I will gladly pay $10 a year for many years, but to quadruple that expense for access to two "additional" sleep trend data charts is ludicrous.

I've recommended this app to several friends, but this limitation has really turned them away.

Account4this
09/13/2017

Incredible app, but flawed pricing

I use this app on a daily basis to help me track my time spent on activities in a week. There are 168 hours in a week, and by using this app, I can see how that time is allocated. In doing so, it helps me keep a balanced life, and I'm currently subscribed for the premium features. I love the structure and aesthetics of the app, and it's very user-friendly.

However, it is absolutely ridiculous to require a $30 annual subscription from Sleep Cycle in order to access some of the sleep trend data charts. It's clearly unnecessary as the two options unavailable are "activities affecting your sleep quality" and "location effecting your sleep quality." Since Life Cycle continuously tracks your location & the sleep recorded by Sleep Cycle is synced, then there is absolutely no reason for the Sleep Cycle online backup subscription to be required. And how can Sleep Cycle selectively transfer data to Life Cycle by requiring online backup for some data, but not all data in the Life Cycle trends? I will gladly pay $10 a year for many years, but to quadruple that expense for access to two "additional" sleep trend data charts is ludicrous.

I've recommended this app to several friends, but this limitation has really turned them away.

FUTUREpilot267
01/04/2018

Great but can still be improved

I love this app, I've been working two jobs over the summer and it's helped me keep track of how many hours I've been working and how much time I've spent driving or sitting at home. There are still a few areas that can be improved however. The weekly view would be way better if it updated each day instead of at the end of every week. The statistics can sometimes be really stupid, it'll tell me I've slept 6% more on a Sunday or something like that, who gives a crap about 6%? it's tiny. I think it would also be a good idea for there to be a map that shows your daily activities like the google maps timeline. Lastly I think it should track the routes you take each day.

Update: After recent updates the weekly view now gets updated automatically, the statistics are much better, but I really think the map showing your activities would be a really good idea. I also think that the donut should be more like a timeline, in order, rather than chunks of different activities throughout your day.

FUTUREpilot267
01/04/2018

Great but can still be improved

I love this app, I've been working two jobs over the summer and it's helped me keep track of how many hours I've been working and how much time I've spent driving or sitting at home. There are still a few areas that can be improved however. The weekly view would be way better if it updated each day instead of at the end of every week. The statistics can sometimes be really stupid, it'll tell me I've slept 6% more on a Sunday or something like that, who gives a crap about 6%? it's tiny. I think it would also be a good idea for there to be a map that shows your daily activities like the google maps timeline. Lastly I think it should track the routes you take each day.

Update: After recent updates the weekly view now gets updated automatically, the statistics are much better, but I really think the map showing your activities would be a really good idea. I also think that the donut should be more like a timeline, in order, rather than chunks of different activities throughout your day.